Trigger top and game



May 22, 19347 E. s. Moons TRIGGER TOP AND GAME Filed Sept. 6. 1932 FIG. 8.

Patented May 22, 1934- UNITED STA The invention relates to a trigger top and game, as described in the present specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawing that forms part of the same.

l The invention consists essentially of the constructional features of the board in relation to its uses as a bearing member for spinning purposes and as a support for the spinning top, as pointed out in the claims for novelty following a description of the details contributing to the carrying out of the objects.

TES PATENT OFFICE TRIGGER TOP AND GAME Edgar Stanley Moore, Montreal', Quebec, Canada, assignor, by mesne assignments, to Inventions Limited, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Application September 6, 1932, Serial No. 631,800

3 Claims.

` to the amusement of spinning the top.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a side view of the game board showing the to-p in side elevation.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional View of the board.

Figure 3 is a side View of the board apart from the top.

Figure 4 is a View of the top spinning.

Figure 5 is a side View of a modification of the game board showing the top spinning thereon.

board showing the tray side fully and in plan.

Figure 8 is a sectional View of a singing form of the top.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the various figures.

Referring to the drawing, the board indicated by the numeral 15 is reversible and on either side has the intermediate table 16 in which the central recesses 17, one on either side, are surrounded by the corner recesses 18.

The sides 19 and 2O extend from the end cross piece 21 in which the slotl 22 is made towards one corner. The sides at the extreme ends have the V-shaped slots 23 forming bearings for the top 24.

This top has the spinning point 25 at the end of the tapered body 26, and the stem 27, which is encircled by the sleeve 28.

The body of the top just above the taper is formed with the holes 29 for a trigger 30, and these holes are joined in one form of the top by the channels 31 in which the musical reeds 32 are enclosed.

The trigger 30 extends through a hole 33 through the table 16 and has the finger ring 34 at the end.

The elastic 35 is firmly secured around the end of the cross piece 21 and threaded through 60 the slot 22, and at its extreme end has the pin hole 36 engaging the pin 37 projecting from the sleeve 28, and this elastic 35 is brought to a state of tension and hooked on to the pin 37, which has its end bent slightly in the form of a 6 hook.

The top is turned with the stem 27 in one bearing and the spinning point in the other bearing and this elastic extension is Wound around the sleeve 28 on the stem for several turns and 70 then the trigger 30 is inserted in a hole 29. v

The release of this trigger spins the top, Which is usually caught in the palm of the hand by the spinner and it is then dropped on to the game board 15, say in the central recess 17, the top is then thrown up in the air and is caught on the other side of the game board in the central recess 17 or in one of the corner recesses 18.

Various games may be played according to count or just playing catch, the purpose being s0 to keep the top going on the game board or if in competition throwing it from game board to game board as another child may have a second game board and the top may be played from board to board.

In the boards illustrated in Figures 5, 6 and 7, the tray 38 constitutes one side of the board and contains the bearing 39 at the inner end of the slot 40. This tray has the rim 41 and extends from the end piece 42 from which the opposite 90 side 43 also extends, this opposite side being l slotted at the end to form a bearing 44.

The top is made just the same and also the elastic spinner, so nothing further need be said about them, but the central cup 45 forms the exn tremity of the said end piece and a bearing for the trigger 46. The trigger' 46 runs in a slot 47 in said end piece and a small pin 48 projecting from the trigger is the means of shooting it into the holes in the top. Therefore the invention is to all intents and purposes the same thing as that shown in Figures 1 to 4.

It will now be seen that throughout the description of details and with reference to the drawing, there is set forth an invention both for spinning and for playing a game that will certainly occupy the mind to the exclusion of all mundane affairs.

What I claim is:-

1. A toy of the kind described, comprising a game board having a spinning double-sided table pierced centrally and longitudinally and having bearing projections at one end and at the other end side bars leading to an end bar and a trigger pin inserted through said table and adapted to engage a top, and a string hanging from said gaging said stops on the top and an elastic hang# ing from said board.

3. A toy of the kind described, comprising a top having radial holes therearound to act as a stop, a game board having side rails forming V-shaped bearings and a platform extending from rail to rail vand spacing the same, and on either side of said platform a spinning surface for the top, a cross bar having a slot and joining said rails at one end a stop pin extending through said platform and adapted to engage said top -on one :of said radial holes and an elastic extending from the opposite ends of said rails secured in the slot in the cross bar and engaging the stem of said top. EDGAR STANLEY MOORE. 

